Red Wings @ Flames - 10/31

The Red Wings wrap up their season-long five-game road trip with another late game tonight, a 10:00 PM start in Calgary.

It'll be Detroit's first game without Valtteri Filppula gone for six weeks with a broken wrist. The team did get good news today as Filppula will not require surgery, putting his return at six weeks rather than the earlier-reported six-to-eight weeks.

With Filppula gone and Ville Leino a healthy scratch, Khan says the Wings are working with the following lines:

I saw the game on FSN-D however, it was on 664 vice 663. Whatever that means... That was one of the best games I have sen the Wings play all season. I thought they did a good job of maintaining control of the puck and shuttting down the attack. If it was not for that bad bounce Ozzie would have had a shutout.

We needed a win like that to wrap up a long road trip. Now we have a few days to enjoy it before the Sharks come to town.